† halperv.
Obsolete.
To stumble, go unsteadily, go backward and forward.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily
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dotterc1475
stavera1500
stumblea1500
reel1529
scamblec1571
halper1596
totter1602
folder1607
wamble1611
to make a Virginia fence1671
wandle1686
fribble1709
rock1718
stoit1719
stoiter1724
swagger1724
doddle1761
stotter1781
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dodder1819
twaddle1823
teeter1844
shoggle1884
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whemmel1895
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. L4 If..he is not well acquainted with the place, he goes filthely halpering, and asking cap in hand from one shop to another, where's such a house and such a signe?
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 54 Hee might have tooke him at his proffer, which since he refused, and now halperd with him: as he eate vp the first, so would he eate vpp the second.
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